Shoe lasting and stapling machine.



J. A. KELLY. SHOE LASTING AND STAPLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED mm", 25, 1914.

1,128,609, Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

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JOHN A. KELLY, OF PH ILADEIEHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHOE LASI'ING AND STAPLING MACHINE.

Application filed June 25, 1914.

T all'tvhom it ma concern:

Be 1t known t at 1, JOHN A. KELLY, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a cer' tain new and useful Shoe Lasting and Stapling Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a shoe machine of that kind employed for fastening the upper to the insole during the process of lasting the shoe.

The object is to facilitate the lasting of the upper by enabling certain o erations heretofore necessarily performed y hand to be carried out simultaneously with the operation of stapling the upper to the insole, thus effecting a saving in the time and labor and accordingly securing economy in manufacture.

The invention pertains, more particularly, to shoe machinery of the character disclosed in Dreys Patent No. 1,011,592, granted on December 12, 1911, and the improvement is two-fold, first, in a novel throat plate and,.second, in an improved form of anvil cooperating with said throat plate.

The throat plate and the anvil are rela tively movable, it being preferred to employ a stationary throat plate and a reciprocating anvil, although this organization may be reversed.

In a preferred form, the throat plate is provided with two members projecting-forwardly of the throat and positioned at the respective sides thereof, said throat plate cooperating with the anvil in such manner that at the period of" inserting and clenching the staple the forwardly extending mernbers operate on the free edge of the up er to pull thelatter around the last tight y, whereby at one operation the upper is lasted and stapled;

The anvil is provided rearwardly of the toe thereof with a lip, said toe and lip be ing operable in the channels of the insole for the purpose of pressing the insole, last and upper toward the throat plate for stapling, or stapling and lasting the upper to said insole, wherebythe lip atthe rear specification of Letters iatent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 347,180.

or the anvil operates on. the insole by frictional contact therewith to relieve some of the pressure upon that part of the insole engaged by the toe of said anvil.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the following detailed description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the insole and upper on a last. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the throat plate and the anvil in the operation of side lasting the upper. F 3 is a vertical section showing the cooperation of the throat olate and the anvil in the operation of side lasting the upper present with the insole on the last. Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views of the throat plate and the anvil.

A designates the throat plate and B is the anvil which cooperates therewith. These parts are used on a stapling machine of suitable form for the purpose of fastening a shoe upper to the feather of an insole while said upper and insole are present upon a last. a machine of this character being disclosed in the Drey patent to which referencehas been made.

One improvement is embodied in the throat plate. As usual, this plate is provided with a channel a and with a throat a, through which is fed the staple or the wire to form the staple. such feeding and staple forming being effected by usual means. The improvement in the throat plate consists of gripping membersv C projecting from the edge of the plate nearest the last and insole, said gripping members being positioned at oppos te sules oi. the throat c and being spaced relatively to each other so as to produce a notch into which the anvil is adaptedto enter. Furthermore, the gripping members extend forwardly of the throat, and, preferably, said members are in a plane above the throat, and the free forward edges are toothed 0r serrated at c. The throat plate, as shown, is secured fixedly in position by suitable means upon an appropriate part of the machine so that the last. upper and insole may be presented by the movement of anvil B to said throat plate.

The anvil is provided with a too I) as usual, but in my invention said anvil is provided with a depending lip b positioned rearwardly of the toe, whereby the toe and the lip are adapted to enter and to slide in the outer and inner channels respectively of the insole, the depending lip b performing the function of relieving some of the pressure of the toe bupon the outer lip of the insole, thereby reducing the tendency to tear or punch through the thin lip of the leather insole.

In operation, an insole D is tacked, as usual, to a last E, said insole being shown as having amouter channel (I and inner channel e, the two channels forming the rib cl and the lip 6. Prior to placing the upper on the last, the box toe and the counter are placed within said upper, as usual, and then the assembled parts are pulled over the last. The last is now operated upon by a machine known as the, pulling over machine, the same operating to draw the edges of the upper over the insole and to temporarily fasten the upper by a series of five lasting tacks, one at the toe and two at each side. Now, instead of side lasting the upper by hand labor and fastening it tightl around the last by two rows of lasting tac s in addition to the five tacks inserted by the pulling over machine, as heretofore,the last with the upper is carried directly to the stapling machine having the throat plate A and anvil B of my invention, and thence to the lasting machin-e, the wipers of which last in the toe and heel of the upper.

The last is positioned below the anvil of the stapling machine so that the toe and the lip enterthe'channels d e and engage with the rib d and the lip e, and the anvil is moied by the operation of the stapling machine to shift the last, upper and insole toward the throat plate, whereby the gripping members engage with and pull the upper over the insole and around the last, at which time the upper is stapled to the insole,whereby the operations of side lasting the upper and stapling the latter to the insole are carried out at one and the same time, and, further, the side lasting operation is performed mechanically and automatically, thus saving the hand labor of the side lasters and obviating the necessity for driving and pulling out the lasting tacks. i

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1..- In a shoe machine, the combination of a cooperating throat plate and an anvil for performing the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and the anvil being relatively movable, and said throat plate being provided with means for drawing the upper relatively to the last at the time of stapling said upper to the insole. 2. In a shoe machine, the combination of a throat plate and an anvil for effecting the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and the anvil being the one movable relatively to the other for side lasting the upper simultaneously with stapling the upper to the insole, said throat plate being provided with forwardly extending members positioned for gripping the upper so as to last the latter simultaneously with the stapling thereof.

3. In a shoe machine, the combination of a throat plate and an anvil for effecting the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and the anvil being the one movable relatively to the other for side lasting the upper simultaneously with stapling the upper to the insole, said throat plate be ing provided with a staple feeding throat and with gripping members extending forwardly of said throat and positioned for engagement with the upper so as to last the latter simultaneously with the stapling.

4. In a shoe machine, the combination of 'a throat plate and an anvil for effecting the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and the anvil being the one movable relatively to the other for side lasting the upper simultaneously with stapling the upper to the insole, said throat plate being provided with a staple feeding throat and with toothed members positioned at the opposite sides of and extending. forwardly with respect to said throat for lastingthe -upper simultaneously with the stapling thereof.

5. In a shoe machine, the combination of a throat plate and an anvil for effecting the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and the anvil, being the one movable relatively to the other for side lasting the upper simultaneously with stapling the upper to the insole, said anvil being provided rearwardly of the toe portion thereof with a member positioned for contact with an insole so that the anvil engages at two points with the insole for relieving the pressure of the anvil toe upon said insole adjacent to the edge portion thereof.

6. In a shoe machine, the combination of a throat plate and an anvil for effecting the operation of stapling an upper to an insole, said throat plate and 'the anvil being the one movable relatively to the other for side lasting the upper simultaneously with stapling the upper to the insole, said anvil being pro: vided rearwardly of the toe portion thereof with a depending lip positioned for frictional contact with the lip portion of the insole rearwardly of the rib portion of said insole engaged by the toe of said anvil.

7. In a shoe machine, the combination of a throat plate provided with a throat and with gripping members spaced relatively to and extending forwardly of said throat, an anvil cooperating with the throat'of said gripping members thereof for effecting the two subscrlblng witnesses. lasting of the upper, and means for stapling the upper to the insole at the time of side JOHN A. KELLY. 5 lasting the upper by the coiiperating throat Witnesses:

plate and the anvil. H. I. BERNHARD, In testimony whereof I have signed my M. C. RODRIGUEZ.

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